StratPlayer wrote:Yes it is very interesting how Time caused so many xkcd fans to delurk and take part in this thread. I wonder if some of the old-timer xkcd forumites look in this needle-pulled-thingy and feel like this has moved in next door to them:

Spoiler:

YES. VERY MUCH SO.

Get off my lawn ya hooligans!

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Oh crap now I've egosearched this thread! This is worse than that time I posted in "Count to a Million"!

Assuming an average of 1 minute passes in newpixia per newpix observed by the squatters-who-read-this-thingy-pulled-by-a-needle-with-a-knot-at-the-other-end, almost 12 hours have passed in Megan & Cueball's world. At my nearby beach, the tide would have risen a lot more and receded again. So we can strike the guess that this is taking place at an earth shore or harbor.

Possibilities: inland landlocked sea that is slowly flooding the surrounding land.a different world with a smaller moon and a longer period of rotationthey are a zoo exhibit and the zoo keeper forgot to turn off the hose after washing down the exhibit windows.?????

kryton wrote:Assuming an average of 1 minute passes in newpixia per newpix observed by the squatters-who-read-this-thingy-pulled-by-a-needle-with-a-knot-at-the-other-end, almost 12 hours have passed in Megan & Cueball's world. At my nearby beach, the tide would have risen a lot more and receded again. So we can strike the guess that this is taking place at an earth shore or harbor.

Possibilities: inland landlocked sea that is slowly flooding the surrounding land.a different world with a smaller moon and a longer period of rotationthey are a zoo exhibit and the zoo keeper forgot to turn off the hose after washing down the exhibit windows.?????

But also, most likely, if it had been 12 hours, it would've been darker towards either the beginning or the end*, assuming an Earth-like rate of rotation, and that they reside on a round body spinning near a light source, etc. etc. So, could be they're just very fast builders, and it's been rather less than one min/np.

P.S. I am Randall, but not that Randall.We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better … stronger … well, maybe not faster.Well, BlitzGirl is experiencing a bit of a title wave.

DAMN YOU! I have successfully been lurking since the beginning of Time (from frame 1|2|4, they look kinda alike...) and had to make a quick answer, but by the time I had my account registered and my answer ready I noticed I'd already would have been multiply pre-post-ninja'd1 since this message will probably take its sweet time to get approved...

Well, now I'm here and since anyone can be Pope nowadays I have to settle for the cardinality that is reserved for lurkers like me. I do get a hat, don't I?

I guess I have to settle for a hat. And wait for it.

1 You misspelled, and I'm the first to point that out, aren't I? That counts for something, right? Right?... right.

Exodies wrote:Reality stops at Frame 19. After that we enter Megan's dream. She dreams that she wakes up, shakes sandman dust from her eyes and the nightmare of frantic activity taking place at glacial speed together with absurd conversations which have become our waking lives plays itself out. We can't figure anything out because it's a sleep induced hallucination.

Ok, to me THIS is Occam's Razor. It would account for ... well, basically everything. This gets my vote!

Also: StratPlayer, you are starting to sound an awful lot like an old college buddy of mine...

Time, flowing like a riverTime, beckoning meWho knows when we shall meet againIf ever But timeKeeps flowing like a riverTo the sea

Goodbye my love, Maybe for foreverGoodbye my love, The tide waits for meWho knows when we shall meet againIf ever But timeKeeps flowing like a river (on and on)To the sea, to the sea

Till it's gone forever Gone foreverGone forevermore

Goodbye my friends, Maybe foreverGoodbye my friends, The stars wait for meWho knows where we shall meet againIf ever But timeKeeps flowing like a river (on and on)To the sea, to the sea

Till it's gone forever Gone foreverGone forevermore

Show of hands, who is old enough to remember when this song came out and have an emotional memory attached to it? Besides me, I mean? It came out when I was 13, and I remember listening to it on a train from Thurso to London as we were moving back to the States. *sigh* Almost posted it yesterday.

The other song I haven't seen posted is more depressing, though it is one of my all time faves: From DSOTM, Lyrics by Roger Waters:Time

Spoiler:

Ticking away the moments That make up a dull day Fritter and waste the hours In an off-hand way

Kicking around on a piece of ground In your home town Waiting for someone or something To show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine Staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long And there is time to kill today

And then the one day you find Ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run You missed the starting gun

HAL9000 wrote:I find it simultaneously fascinating and disturbing that the most profound things I've read in the past months I have encountered in or been led to by an internet forum thread about a webcomic.

I will take the opportunity, however, to point out that the lyrics of Alan Parsons Project's "Time" are very similar to TOTC.

Time, flowing like a river (River song?)Who knows when we shall meet again (Frame 52's Later / Bye dialogue)If ever (We never know how long they'll be gone)

The rivers flows to the sea, there are tides, friends, love...

Everything except sandcastles. Dammit!

You could redeem yourself by going back and editing in spoilers, so idiots don't quote the huge block of text.

HAL9000 wrote:I find it simultaneously fascinating and disturbing that the most profound things I've read in the past months I have encountered in or been led to by an internet forum thread about a webcomic.

Caswallon wrote:Well, you could give us a minute. Plus, I hope you noticed in the first post that you missed a C in "Encrypted"

Yeah I saw that too, but I neglected to mention it in my reply using his "enryption" .. mostly because I am lazy and it would have taken an extra 8.3 mNewpix. That would have been terrible. What if Time had ended* in those 8.3 mNewpix and I missed it??

chem1190c wrote:Now clearly, there's still too much experimental uncertainty to settle on 2.5000D. That's just ridiculous. I propose that it should be henceforth referred to as a (2.49999 +/- 0.00001)D universe for no particular reason.

If you analyze their world as a fractal, it doesn't even get to 2.0D!

cmyk wrote:It is a holographic projection of an 8D universe — 3 real spacial dimensions and 1 of time / 3 imaginary spacial dimensions with a likewise imaginary dimension of time.

buffygirl wrote:Some thoughts:-Can we all just pause and consider the following: Randall has created almost 700 images for The One True Comic. That is OVER HALF the number of comics he has ever posted. This is a Big Deal!

I agree.

How does it compare to the work for click and drag do you suppose?

Also. I am of the opinion that the "effort" to continue making xkcd is less the actual drawing and more the amazing concepts. It's much harder to think up the joke than tell the joke. This is just a joke that takes a while to tell.

Show of hands, who is old enough to remember when this song came out and have an emotional memory attached to it? Besides me, I mean? It came out when I was 13, and I remember listening to it on a train from Thurso to London as we were moving back to the States. *sigh* Almost posted it yesterday.

The other song I haven't seen posted is more depressing, though it is one of my all time faves: From DSOTM, Lyrics by Roger Waters:

The Alan Parsons one came out a dozen years before I was born - doesn't mean I have no emotional attachment to it - grew up listening to this stuff, still one of my favorite bands. Pink Floyd too, that one still gets to me every time.I've gotta say though, I recently discovered this one and it might be my favorite AP song now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySZg-m8QTPc

Spoiler:

Stealing a moment from Mr. TimeHe rocks in his chair like a shiny dimeBut it's all for show, all for show.Wearing your name and a number or twoWhen the minute's up, so are youBut everybody knows, everybody knows.

Watching the hour from the light in his eyes,He waits for your soul to come in from the skyBut it's lost below, lost below.Turning the Wheel of your destiny round,When the motion stops - no more sound,Does anybody care, anybody care.

Where's the man, where's the childWrapped together side by side.Who can tell you what to do,When Mr. Time has come for you.See the truth, hear the lies,Can there be no compromiseAnd who can tell you what they knew,When Mr. Time has come for you.

Is it a feeling of deja vu?When he points his finger calling youIs it illusion? Just an illusionPicking up seconds that fall to his feetHe blows them away as rocks on his seat,Cool as his smile, his smile.

Where's the man, where's the childWrapped together side by side.Who can tell you what to do,When Mr. Time has come for youSee the truth, hear the lies,Can there be no compromiseAnd who can tell you what they knew,When Mr. Time has come for you.

Does anyone else thinks their "castle"on the top level looks a lot like a boat? It's probably just unfinished "sand" sculpting, but to me it just looks like a boat, and to be fair, this top level has been much less castle-like and much more art-like anyway. Or I could just be on drugs. I'm probably on drugs

HAL9000 wrote:I find it simultaneously fascinating and disturbing that the most profound things I've read in the past months I have encountered in or been led to by an internet forum thread about a webcomic.

I think they're rot13ing every other letter. It's kind of scary how obsessive crypto nerds can get. Often more so than Latin nerds, even.

HAL9000 wrote:I find it simultaneously fascinating and disturbing that the most profound things I've read in the past months I have encountered in or been led to by an internet forum thread about a webcomic.

edo wrote:Has anyone suggested we give Blitzgirl the name that is above any other name given to women, that of "Megan"?

So am I pope or is it one of you two?

I think it's been 24 hours since I last was, but I'll abdicate to you in honor of your 100th post being your first on this page.

HAL9000 wrote:I find it simultaneously fascinating and disturbing that the most profound things I've read in the past months I have encountered in or been led to by an internet forum thread about a webcomic.